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Year 2000
- 2001
In December 1999, the Inter-Ministry Committee on Youth Crime (IMYC)
commissioned TOUCH Community Services to develop the contents of
a manual for parents to address the potential dangers of the Internet.
The manual was a Family Life Education Package on “Parenting
Teenagers in the Internet Age“. TOUCH proposed to complement
the manual and reach out to youths as well, through a parallel programme
of E-mentoring and roadshows for students.
In 2001, TOUCH developed CRUSH,
which stands for Cyberspace Risks and where U Seek Help - a first-of-its-kind
collaborative effort by the schools, community and the Government,
to meet real needs of the schools in helping their students surf
safely. Launched in September 2001, CRUSH
received funding from the Media Development Authority (MDA), Inter-Ministry
Committee on Youth Crime and Starhub. |
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Year 2002
TOUCH trained the first Internet Safety Youth Ambassadors in secondary
schools and tertiary institutions to propagate the message of safe-surfing.
Through Service-Learning, 239 mentors were deployed in secondary
schools impacting almost 2500 students through Project CRUSH. |
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Year 2003
In 2003, TOUCH pioneered the Cyber Wholeness Enrichment Programme
in 2002 to help youths dealing with their internet gaming difficulties.
A total of 35 youths found breakthrough in their gaming habits from
2003 to 2004. |
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Year 2004
In 2004, TOUCH Cyber Wellness worked with the MDA to define the cyber wellness
framework to guide and manage the use of the Internet. This was
significant in crafting a common set of cyber wellness values for
“cyber wellness education”
in Singapore and beyond.
TOUCH Cyber Wellness also developed cyber wellness programme templates for
the MDA to help other organisations to propagate the cyber wellness
message.
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Year 2005
As a testament of our good standing, TOUCH Cyber Wellness was again approached
by the MDA in 2005 to train other trainers from authorised training
centres to conduct cyber wellness training. Since the disbandment
of the Parent Advisory Group for the Internet in 2006, TOUCH Cyber Wellness
is the sole service provider in conducting cyber wellness workshops
for parents and educators. |
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Year 2006
Singapore’s first Cyber Wellness Centre…
Expanding its role, TOUCH opened the PlanetCRUSH
Cyber Wellness Centre in August 2006 - Singapore’s first one-stop
cyber wellness resource centre that includes cyber wellness counselling
services.
In 2006, TOUCH Cyber Wellness also worked with National Youth Council (NYC)
to publish a handbook - “The Offline Guide for the Online
Generation” - for parents and educators.
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2007
“The MisAdventures of Ah Boon” was launched and made
a great impact on 63,000 youths through assembly and roadshow settings.
The same year, another 2 shows covering new issues such as respecting
copyrights and internet videos were commissioned.
The PlanetCRUSH Cyber Wellness
Centre continued to counsel many youths and families experiencing
problems with computer gaming. TOUCH also actively promoted healthy
gaming through it’s involvement in the World Cyber
Games and organising Family E-Sports
Events.
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2008
Singapore's first Cyber Wellness Handbook for Parents...
In 2008, TOUCH published the Cyber Wellness Handbook for Parents, a first in Singapore.
This was supported by the Ministry of Community, Youth & Sports (MCYS) and distributed
through all MOE schools to parents of Primary Three to Secondary Three students.
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2009
Singapore's first Cyber Wellness Newsletter
In 2009, TOUCH started producing a quarterly Cyber Wellness Newsletter.
Expansion of Cyber Wellness Centre
Overseas Engagements
TOUCH Cyber Wellness was invited to conduct training workshops at the Lam Woo Social
Work Seminar in Chengdu, China. At the workshops, TOUCH imparted the essence
of Cyber Wellness, which is a uniquely Singapore movement. |
